This weekend we spent a clear Sunday afternoon doing a photo shoot at the Prince of Wales railway bridge near Bayview station off of the Ottawa River Parkway.

We walked down the tracks and across the bridge to find our first GeoCache of the new season. It was a good place for cache and hopefully everyone will agree that the photo turned out great too.

After crossing the bridge and taking some more shots we headed back. On our return we saw the police waiting on the other side, giving tickets out to the folks ahead of us for trespassing on the bridge. We didn’t want to press our luck so we turned around and started walking north. We crossed both stretches of track over the Ottawa River to the Quebec side. We took the long walk back in to Ottawa at the Booth street bridge.

Keeping our eyes sharp and having a telescopic lens kept us out of trouble this time. I’d say it was worth the risk and we got a good story out of it.

HEAVY METAL

Have a Look at My Photo Page to see a couple more pictures from the bridge.

Here’s a Google Map of the Price of Wales Railway Bridge. Lemieux Island is the location where Ottawa’s water is purification and distributed. You can see the water distribution pipes on the south west side of the Island.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 8:03 pm and is filed under Exploring.
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